Curriculum Vitae

Department of History Boston College 140 Chestnut Hill Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3859 Work: (617) 552-6881 Cell: (508) 314-4126

Education Ph.D., 2000 University of Chicago, History

M.A., 1993 University of Chicago, History

Diplôme élémentaire, 1990 Institut Catholique de Paris, French

B.A., 1989 Carleton College, History magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kapa

Academic Employment 2019- Boston College Professor of History Affiliated Faculty, Center for Human Rights and International Justice (2006-); Affiliated Faculty, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (2009-); Affiliated Faculty, Jewish Studies Program (2011-).

2006-2019 Boston College Associate Professor of History

Summer 2017 Fritz Bauer Institute, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Guest Professor for Interdisciplinary Holocaust Research (taught a seminar on “Kriegsverbrecherprozesse in der Weltgeschichte” and a lecture course on “War and Genocide in World History”)

Spring 2016 Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan Guest Professor (taught the seminar, “Law, Human Rights, and International History”)

1 2008- Harvard University Faculty Affiliate and Co-Chair, German Study Group (2008-14); co-chair, Contemporary Europe Study Group (2014-19), Minda de Guzberg Center for European Studies

2003-06 Boston College Assistant Professor of History

2000-2003 University of Chicago Collegiate Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Member of the Committee on International Relations [from 2002]; associated faculty member, Department of History [from 2001]

1995-1999 University of Chicago Lecturer, Social Science Core

1994-1995 University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Social Science Core

1992-1996 University of Chicago Research Assistant for Professor Michael Geyer

Publications Books -- Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

--Beyond the Racial State: New Perspectives on Nazi Germany, co-edited with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzel (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

--Political Trials in Theory and History, co-edited with Jens Meierhenrich (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

--Der Auschwitz-Prozess: Völkermord vor Gericht (Siedler Verlag, 2013). German translation of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, with a new afterward.

-- The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Books in progress --The Cambridge History of the Holocaust, vol. 4, Outcomes, Aftermath, Repercussions, co-edited with Laura Jockusch

2 --Law, Mass Violence, and the Making of the Modern World (under contract with Oxford University Press).

Series Editor --Genocide in Transnational Perspective, Bloomsbury Press (London).

Journal Articles and Essays --“War Crimes Trials between Politics and Justice,” Tulsa Law Review 49/2 (Winter 2013): 557-568.

--“Auschwitz Trials: The Jewish Dimension,” with Laura Jockusch and Gabriel Finder, Yad Vashem Studies 41/2 (2013): 139-171.

--“Anatomie eines Skandals: die Ermittlungen im Mordfall Dr. Hans Hannemann im Kontext der deutschen Nachkriegsjustiz,” Kritische Justiz 46/3 (2013): 245-56.

--“Toward a New Politics? On the Recent Historiography of Human Rights” Contemporary European History 21/1 (2012): 95-111.

--“Retroactive Law and Proactive Justice: Debating Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1950” Central European History 43 (September 2010): 428-63.

--“Interrogating Torture: Human Rights, the War on Terror, and the Fate of America,” The Journal of American Studies 44 (May 2010): 429-39.

-- “Seeking Justice, Finding Law: Nazi Trials in the Postwar Era, 1945-1989” in The Journal of Modern History 81 (June 2009): 347-368.

-- “Explaining Nazism: Ethics, Beliefs, and Interests” in Modern Intellectual History 5 (November 2008): 573-96.

--“Transitional Justice and Just Transitions: The German Case, 1945-1950” European Studies Forum 38 (Spring 2008): 57-64.

-- “Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt in Frankfurt: The Eichmann Trial, the Auschwitz Trial and the Banality of Justice,” New German Critique 34 (Winter 2007): 77-109.

-- “‘The Magical Scent of the Savage’: Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War,” The Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 30 (Winter 2007): 29-53.

-- “Truth and its Consequences: Reflections on Political, Historical and Legal ‘Truth’ in West German Holocaust Trials,” Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue d’histoire 11 (2004): 25-38.

3 -- “‘I didn’t know what Auschwitz was’: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the German Press, 1963-1965,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 12 (June 2000): 397-446.

Book Chapters --“‘Final Solution,’ Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide: From Separate to Integrated Histories” in Hilary Earl and Simone Gigliotti eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Holocaust (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020): 21-44.

--“Criminals, Enemies, and the Politics of Transitional Justice” in Austin Sarat et. al. eds., Criminals and Enemies (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019): 22-43.

--“War Crimes Trials in Theory and Practice from the Middle Ages to the Present” in Jonathan Waterlow and Jacques Schumacher eds. War Crimes Trials and Investigations: A Multidisciplinary Introduction (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018): 23-58.

--“Introduction,” with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzell in Pendas et. al. Beyond the Racial State (2017): 1-31.

--“Racial States in Comparative Global Perspective” in Pendas et. al, Beyond the Racial State (2017): 116-145.

-- “‘The Justice of My Cause is Clear, but There’s Politics to Fear’: Political Trials in Theory and History,” with Jens Meierhenrich, in Meierhenrich and Pendas, Political Trials (2016): 1-64.

-- “The Eichmann Trial and the Politics of Cosmopolitan Memory” in Meierhenrich and Pendas, Political Trials (2016): 205-228.

--“Against War: Pacifism as Collaboration and as Resistance,” in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze eds., The Cambridge History of the Second World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015): 475-501.

--“Der 1. Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess, 1963-1965. Eine historische Einführung” in Raphael Gross and Werner Renz ed. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess (1963-1965): Kommentierte Quellenedition, 2 vols. (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013): 55-85.

-- “Atom Egoyan’s Ararat and the Critique of Diplomatic Reason,” in John Michalczyk and Raymond G. Helmick eds,. Through a Lens Darkly: Films of Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Atrocities (New York: Peter Lang, 2013): 38-48.

-- “The Fate of Nuremberg: The Legacy and Impact of the Successor Trials in the Postwar Era” in Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller eds., The Nuremberg Trials Revisited: New Analyses and Interpretations (New York: Berghahn Books, 2012): 249-75.

4 -- “Putting the Holocaust on Trial in the Two Germanys, 1945-1989,” in Jonathan Friedman ed., The Routledge History of the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2011): 425- 35.

-- “Auf dem Weg zu einem globalen Rechtssystem? Die Menschenrechte und das Scheitern des legalistischen Paradigmas des Krieges” in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ed., Moralpolitik. Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 226-55. In English as “Toward World Law? Human Rights and the Failure of the Legalist Paradigm of War” in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann ed., Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 215-36.

-- “Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Punishing Génocidaires” co-authored with Donald Bloxham in Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2010): 617-37.

-- “Bearing Witness and Being a Witness: Survivor Testimony in West German Holocaust Trials” in J.D. Steinert ed., Beyond Camps and Forced Labor: 60 Years On (Osnabrück: Secolo Verlag, 2008): 195-205.

-- “Testimony” in Benjamin Ziemann and Miriam Dobson eds., Reading Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2008): 226-42.

-- “The Historiography of Horror: The Auschwitz Trial and the German Historical Imagination” in Jeffrey Diefendorf ed., Lessons and Legacies VI: New Currents in Holocaust Research (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004): 209-30.

-- “‘Law, not Vengeance’: Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials” in Mark Bradley ed., Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002): 23-41.

-- “‘Auschwitz, je ne savais pas ce que c’était’: Le procès d’Auschwitz à Francfort et l’opinion publique allemande” in Florent Brayard ed., Le genocide des juifs entre procès et histoire, 1943-2000 (Brussels: edition Complexe, 2001), 79-112. (Translation of an earlier version of the Yale Journal article).

Minor Essays and Encyclopedia Articles --“Why We Should Still Care about Prosecuting Nazi Criminals,” on we’re history; http://werehistory.org/nazis/.

-- “Germany—the Nazi Past” and “Nuremberg” in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky eds., The Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013): vol. 2, 200-209; vol. 3, 330-35.

--Virtual Forum, “The Eichmann Trial Fifty Years Later” in German History 29/2 (2011): 265-82.

--“‘Political Tyranny and Ideological Crime’: Rereading Anatomy of the SS State” in Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Cotemporary History 5/3 (2008): http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/16126041-Pendas-3-2008.

Academic Awards, Honors and Fellowships Professional --Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies, held at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2009-2010). -- Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (2007- 08). --Summer Fellow, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany (2007). -- Research Expense Grants, Boston College (2004, 2005). -- Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund grant from the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, in support of the conference Dilemmas of Justice: New Perspectives on Trials for War Crimes and Mass Atrocity (2001).

Graduate School -- Ignacio Martin-Baro Human Rights Essay Prize of the Human Rights Program, University of Chicago for “‘Law, not Vengeance’: Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials” (2000). -- MacArthur Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies in International Peace and Cooperation (1999-2000). -- History Department Nominee for W.R. Harper Dissertation Grant (1998) -- DAAD Doctoral Research Grant (1996-1997). -- Awarded Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Research Grant (1995-1996) [declined]. --Honors on Ph.D. Field Exams (1994). -- University of Chicago Stipend Grant (1993-1996).

Undergraduate -- Phi Beta Kapa -- Dean’s List, 1985-1989 -- Class of ’62 Scholar, 1988 -- Certificate of Advanced Study in German Language and Literature

Book Reviews --Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning in The Journal of Modern History 89 (December 2017): 927-29.

--Kim Christian Priemel, The Betrayal: The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence on Lawfare (April 4, 2017).

6 --Christian Delage, Caught on Camera: Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge in The Journal of Modern History 88 (March 2016): 171-72.

--Lora Wildenthal, The Language of Human Rights in West Germany in The Journal of Modern History 87/1 (March 2015): 235-36.

--Ulrike Weckel, Beschämende Bilder: Deutsche Reaktionen auf allierte Dokumentarfilme über befreite Konzentrationslager in The American Historical Review 119 (2014): 469-71. Featured Review.

--Inga Markovits, Justice in Lüritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany, in The American Historical Review 117/3 (June 2012): 952-53.

--David Fraser, Daviborshch’s Cart: Narrating the Holocaust in Australian War Crimes Trials in Central European History 45/2 (June 2012): 359-61.

--Kevin John Heller, The Nuremberg Mililtary Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, in International and Comparative Law Quarterly 61/2 (April 2012): 551- 53.

--Alrich Meyer, Das Wissen um Auschwitz: Täter und Opfer der ‘Endlösung’ in Westeuropa, in The Journal of Modern History 84 (March 2012): 269-70.

--Valerie Geneviève Hébert, Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg, in Central European History 43 (December 2010), 734-36.

--Georg Wamhof ed., Das Gericht als Tribunal oder: Wie der NS-Vergangenheit der Prozess gemacht wurde in German History 28 (June 2010): 251-53.

--Markus Lang, Karl Loewenstein: Transatlanstischer Denker der Politik, on H-German (April 9, 2010).

--Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus eds., Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, on H-German (December 2009).

--Nathan Stolzfus and Henry Friedlander eds., Nazi Crimes and the Law in The American Historical Review 114 (April 2009): 499-500.

--Norbert Frei ed., Transnationale Vergangenheitspolitik: Der Umgang mit deutschen Kriegsverbrechern in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 23 (Spring 2009): 97-99.

--Elisabeth Mertz, The Language of Law School: Learning to “Think Like a Lawyer” in The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 19 (Fall 2008): 306-08.

7 --Michael S. Bryant, Confronting the “Good Death”: Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945- 1953 in Newsletter des Fritz Bauer Instituts 33 (Herbst 2008):

--Jeffrey K. Olick, In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943- 1945 in The Journal of Modern History 80 (September 2008): 721-23.

--Norman J.W. Goda, Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War in German History 26 (April 2008): 330-31.

--Thomas Albrich, Winfried R. Garscha and Martin F. Polaschek eds., Holocaust und Kriegsverbrechen vor Gericht: Der Fall Österreich in German Studies Review 30/1 (2008): 176-77.

--Dagmar Barnow, The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans in The American Historical Review 112 (December 2007): 1629-30.

--Paul Julian Weindling, Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21 (Winter 2007): 513- 16.

--Robert Eaglestone, The Holocaust and the Postmodern in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21 (Winter 2007): 519-21.

--Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner, Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965 [DVD], on H-German (December, 2007).

--Eric Friedler, Barbara Siebert and Andreas Kilian, Zeugen aus der Todeszone: Das jüdische Sonderkommando in Auschwitz and Regula Zürcher, “Wir machten die schwarze Arbeit des Holocaust”: Das Personal der Massenvernichtungsanlagen von Auschwitz (joint review) in The Journal of Modern History 79 (June 2007): 409-412.

-- Richard Breitman et. al, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, on H-German (List serve for German Historians, 6/29/2006).

--Harald Fühner, Nachspiel: Die niederländische Politik und die Verfolgung von Kollaborateuren und NS-Verbrechen, 1945-1989 and Claudia Moisel, Frankreich und die deutschen Kriegsverbrecher: Politik und Praxis der Strafverfolgung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (joint review) in Central European History 39/3 (2006): 536-540.

-- Horst H. Freyhofer, The Nuremberg Medical Trial: The Holocaust and the Origin of the Nuremberg Medical Code in German Studies Review 29 (February 2006): 219-220.

--Mona Sue Weissmark, Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II in German Studies Review 28 (October 2005), pp. 663-64.

8 -- Benjamin Carter Hett, Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser’s Berlin in The Canadian Journal of History XL (August 2005), pp. 334-35.

--Kerstin Freudiger, Die juristische Aufarbeitung von NS-Verbrechen, in The Journal of Modern History 77 (June 2005): 491-94.

--Benjamin B. Ferencz, Less than Slaves: Jewish Forced Labor and the Quest for Compensation, on H-German (List-Serve for German historians, 4/28/2005).

--Howard Margolian, Unauthorized Entry: The Truth about Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17 (Winter 2003): 505-508.

--Irmtrud Wojak ed., “Gerichtstag halten über uns selbst…”: Geschichte und Wirkung des ersten Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozesses, in The Journal of Modern History 75 (September 2003): 725-27.

-- Robert Jan van Pelt, The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17 (Fall 2003): 375-78.

Translations -- Dietrich Hohmann, “An Attempt at an Exemplary Report on H.,” translated and edited by Devin O. Pendas in Michael Geyer ed., The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

-- Alexander Kluge, “The Moment of Tragic Recognition with a Happy Ending,” translated and edited by Devin O. Pendas in Michael Geyer ed., The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

-- Dietrich Hohmann, “Ordinary Events,” translated and edited by Devin O. Pendas and Michael Latham in Michael Geyer ed., The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

-- Simone Barck, Martina Langermann and Siegfried Lokatis, “The GDR as ‘Republic of Letters’: Utopia, Planning, Reality and Ideology,” translated by Devin O. Pendas and Michael Latham in Michael Geyer ed., The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Public Scholarship -- “Fractional Justice: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial” Boston College Magazine (Summer 2007).

--Historical Commentary for DVD release of TV series The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (Lucasfilms, 2007).

Media

9 March 21, 2017 radio interviews with Radio Live and News Talk ZB (both New Zealand) about allegations that New Zealand troops participated in war crimes in Afghanistan.

February 15, 2017 interview with New England Cable News show, “The Take” on the Amnesty International Report on war crimes in Syria

January 4, 2017, interview with New England Cable News show, “The Take” on Syrian war crimes in Aleppo.

July 2015, interview with the Boston Globe regarding the recent museum acquisition of a telegram from Göring to Hitler in May 1945.

November and December 2013, radio interviews regarding fiftieth anniversary of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial for: Deutschlandfunk (two different programs), SR2 (Saarland Radio), Hessischerundfunk, Deutschewelle.

November 2013, TV interviews for ZDF and n-tv.de (online broadcast) regarding fiftieth anniversary of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

November 2013, newspaper interview with Die Tagespost regarding anniversary of Auschwitz Trial.

May 2009, interview with The Economist regarding the trial of John Demjanuk.

Invited Lectures --“Human Rights and the Crisis of Civilization,” College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, March 23, 2018.

--“Zivilization und Kriegsrecht,” Fritz Bauer Institut, J.W. Goethe Universität, June 28, 2017.

--“Human Rights and the Laws of War since 1945,” Forshungskolloquium zur Geshichte der Menschenrechte, Freie Universität, Berlin, April 24, 2017.

--“Law and Democracy: Transitional Justice in German Courts, 1945-1950,” Yale University, Modern Europe Colloquium, February 18, 2015.

--“Der Auschwitz-Prozess als Geschichte,” Topographie des Terrors, Berlin, November 25, 2013.

--“Geschichte und Wirkung des ersten Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozesses,” Forshungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, November 21, 2013.

--“Der Auschwitz-Prozess. Völkermord vor Gericht,” Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt, November 20, 2013.

--“Auschwitz Trials, East and West” and “Human Rights and History,” University of Virginia, November 3-4, 2012.

--“Reflections on Transitional Justice in Germany” and “The New Historiography of Human Rights,” University of Minnesota, October 9 and 10, 2012.

-- "Nuremberg, Ulm, Frankfurt: The Development of Nazi Trials in Postwar Europe, 1945-1965,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy (May 7, 2012).

-- "Law and Democracy: The Paradoxes of Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950,” University of Minnesota (April 4, 2012).

-- “Transitional Justice or Just Transitions? The German Case, 1945-1950,” University of Chicago, March 2, 2012.

-- “Overcoming Weimar? Nazi Trials and the Transformation of Postwar German Legal Culture,” Vanderbilt University (Nashville, February 17, 2012).

--“The Paradoxes of Transitional Justice in Germany,” University of Wisconsin, Madison (December 5, 2011).

--"Justifying the Police State: Prosecuting Nazis and Legitimating Informers in Soviet Occupied Germany,” Columbia University (New York, October 27, 2011).

--“The Legacy of the Eichmann Trial in Law and Memory,” Keynote address, The Eichmann Trial at 50, University of Melbourne Law School (Melbourne, AU, October 13, 2011).

--“Judging Auschwitz: Murder, Genocide, and the Challenges of Legal Interpretation,” Vermont Law School (South Royalton, VM, February 24, 2011).

--“The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in Historical Perspective,” Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York, June 21, 2010).

--“Transitional Justice or Just Transitions? The German Case, 1945-1950,” The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., May 20, 2010).

--“Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1955,” Yigal Aron Law and History Workshop, Tel Aviv University Law School (March 22, 2010).

--“Holocaust Trials in the Postwar World,” Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York, February 7, 2010).

-- “Transitional Justice and its Discontents: The German Experience, 1945-1950,” Center for International History, Columbia University (October 2, 2009).

11 -- “The Logic of Holocaust Denial,” Keynote Address, Holocaust Denial: The Fragility of Truth, United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, Massachusetts House of Representatives Chamber, January 27, 2009.

-- “Law and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950,” McGill University School of Law (Montreal, November 12, 2008).

--“Transitional Justice and Just Transitions: The Case of German Nazi Trials, 1945- 1950,” University of Minnesota at Morris (April 10, 2008).

-- “Law and Democracy: Trying Nazi Crimes in German Courts, 1945-1950,” 2008 Pomerantz Lecture, Drake University (Des Moins, IA, March 10, 2008).

--“Law and Democracy: The Debate over Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945- 1950,” New York University (February 21, 2008).

-- “Retroactive Law and Proactive Justice: German Nazi Trials, East and West, 1945- 1950,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (February 20, 2008).

-- “Justice for Auschwitz? Holocaust Trials and the Limits of the Law,” Dickerson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University (November 28, 2007).

-- “Zum NS-Verfahren der frühen Nachkriegsjahren,” Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Potsdam, Germany, July 2007).

--“Listening and Hearing: Testimony and the History of the Holocaust,” Annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust History Lecture, Kent State University (April 16, 2007).

-- “What then must we do? Mass Atrocity, Memory and the Limits of Law in West German Holocaust Trials,” Boston College (February 13, 2003).

-- “Law and War: From Civilizational Standard to Legalist Paradigm...and Back?” University of Chicago Law School (January 22, 2003).

-- “Human Rights from National Order to International Ideal: Sovereignty, Subjectivity and the Changing Meaning of Rights,” plenary lecture for the International Studies Program (February 26, 2002: University of Chicago).

-- “Ordinary Justice? War Crimes Trials and the Problems of Individual Responsibility, Collective Agency and Guilt,” American Bar Foundation (January 14, 2002).

-- “‘Ich wußte nicht, was Auschwitz ist’: Der Auschwitz-Prozeß im Spiegel der Presse,” Fritz Bauer Institute (November 25, 1997: Frankfurt, Germany).

Conference Papers --“The Liberal-Democratic Paradox and the End(s) of Democracy” Democracies in Peril, (Meiji University, Tokyo, October 11-12, 2019).

--“Demography as Destiny? Aging populations, global migration, and the perils of democracy,” Democracies in Peril, (Boston College, April 12-13 2019).

--“Western Europe: From Allied to National Administration,” Contested Visions of Justice: The Allied War Crimes Trials in Global Context, 1943-1958 (Dublin, September 25-27, 2015).

-- “Contextualizing Nuremberg Today: War and Genocide, Human Rights and War Crimes Trials,” Reflections on the Legacy of Nuremberg: The 70th Anneversary of the Nuremberg Trials (University of California at Berkeley, April 28, 2015).

--“Human Rights and the Legalist Paradigm of War: Convergence and Divergence” Does Human Rights have a History? (University of Chicago, April 10, 2015).

--“Postwar Trials in Global History: The German and Japanese Cases Revisited,” Doing Law, Writing History: New Perspectives on the Post-WW II Trials of Nuremberg and Tokyo (Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, March 6, 2015).

--“Racial States in Comparative Perspective,” Lessons and Legacies (Boca Raton, October 30, 2014).

--“Ideology and the Challenges of Comparison in Holocaust and Genocide Studies,” German Studies Association Conference (Kansas City, September 19, 2014).

--“Racial States in Comparative Perspective,” European Social Science History Association (Vienna, April 26, 2014).

--“Racial States in Comparative Perspective,” German Studies Association (Denver, October 4, 2013).

--“Holocaust Representation in Postwar German Trials,” Representing Genocide, University of Minnesota (April 5, 2013).

--“Civilization and Genocide: The Holocaust and the Efforts to Criminalize Mass Violence after WWII,” Lessons and Legacies (Evanston, IL, November 2, 2012.

--“Reading Moscow 1937 and Reading Law,” German Studies Association (Milwaukee, October 5, 2012).

--“Hermann Langbein, the International Auschwitz Committee, and the Politics of Witnessing,” German Studies Association (Louisville, KY, September 23, 2011).

-- “Between Freedom Fighters and Terrorists: The Politics of International Criminal Law in the 1970s,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting (Boston, January 7, 2011).

--“Debating Crimes against Humanity and the Paradoxes of Democratization in Germany, 1945-1950,” Sixty-Five Years After: World War II and its Legacies for Contemporary Europe and Russia (Carleton University, Ottawa, CA, November 11, 2010).

--“The Nuremberg Precedent and the Limits of International Legalism, 1945-1989,” German Studies Association (Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010).

-- “Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950: Ironies, Paradoxes, and Unintended Consequences,” American Society of Legal Historians Annual Conference (Dallas, November 13-15, 2009).

--“The Fate of a Man: The Murder of Dr. Hans Hannemann, April 25, 1945,” Beyond the Racial State, Indiana University, October 24, 2009.

-- “‘The Use of Legal Forms for Illegal Killing’: Denouncers as Perpetrators in Postwar German Nazi Trials, 1945-1950,” presented at the conference Lessons and Legacies X (Northwestern University, October 31-November 2, 2008).

-- “Toward an Intimate History of Mass Death: The Murder of Dr. Hans Hannemann, April 25, 1945,” presented at the German Studies Association Conference (Minneapolis, MN, October 4, 2008).

--“Human Rights, Genocide and the Limits of Law: The Legalist Paradigm of War, 1945- 2000,” presented at Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Concepts and Conflicts (Berlin, June 19-21, 2008).

--“History and its Discontents: Reflections on the ‘Logic’ of Holocaust Denial,” presented at Defending Truth: Legal and Moral Imperatives of Holocaust Denial, University of Baltimore Law School (May 4, 2008).

-- “Transitional Justice and Just Transitions: The German Case, 1945-1950” presented at Atrocities Outlawed, Human Rights Affirmed: The International Quest to Halt Genocide since 1949 (Millersville University, PA, April 3, 2008).

-- “The Fate of a Man: The Murder of Dr. Hans Hannemann, April 25, 1945,” presented at Democracy, Law and Intimacy: Toward a Moral History of Postwar Europe (Université de Montréal, November 22-24, 2007).

--“The Pursuit of True Justice: Trying Nazis in the Soviet Occupation Zone, 1945-1950,” Chicago Human Rights Symposium (University of Chicago, November 16-17, 2007).

-- “Transitions to Authoritarian Rule: Nazi Trials in the Soviet Zone, 1945-1950,” presented at the German Studies Association Conference (San Diego, CA: October 2007).

--“Debating Crimes against Humanity in Germany, 1945-1946” presented at the symposium, Human Rights and History (University of Chicago, February 3, 2007).

--“Retroactive Law and Proactive Justice: The Debate over Crimes against Humanity in the British Zone, 1945-1950” presented at the German Studies Association Annual Conference (Pittsburgh, PA: October 2006).

-- ‘The Magical Scent of the Savage’: Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War,” presented at “Sharpening the Cutting Edge of International Human Rights Law: Unresolved Issues of War Crimes Tribunals (Boston College, March 24, 2006).

--“Justice for Auschwitz? The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Limits of the Law,” presented at Auschwitz to Srebenice: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Possibility of Justice(a forum at Brandeis University, March 21, 2006).

-- “Bearing Witness and Being a Witness: Survivor Testimony in West German Holocaust Trials,” presented at Beyond Camps and Forced Labor—60 years on (January 11-13, 2006: Imperial War Museum, London).

-- “Law and Holocaust Remembrance: Past, Present and Future” presented at The Future of Memory: An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference (November 10- 12, 2005: University of Manchester, UK).

-- “German War Crimes Trials under Allied Occupation, 1945-1949,” presented at the German Studies Association Conference (October 9, 2004: Washington, D.C.).

-- “‘The Magical Scent of the Savage’: Colonial Violence and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War,” presented at the Annual Law and Society Conference (May 27-30, 2004: Chicago, IL).

-- “Time, Labor and Political Fragmentation: Postonian Critical Theory and Identity Politics in West Germany,” presented at Rethinking Critical Social Theory in the 21st Century: Time, Labor and Social Domination After Ten Years (May 22, 2004: University of Chicago).

-- “Turning Point 1958: Transformations in the Politics of Memory in West Germany,” presented at The 14th Biennial Conference of Europeanists (March 11-13. 2004: Chicago, IL).

15 -- “Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt in Frankfurt: The Eichmann Trial, the Auschwitz Trial and the Banality of Justice,” presented at the conference Eichmann in Jerusalem: Forty Years Later (May 11-12, 2001: DePaul University).

-- “Dilemmas of Justice: War Crimes Trials since World War Two,” plenary lecture at the conference Dilemmas of Justice: New Perspectives on Trials for War Crimes and Mass Atrocity (February 17, 2001: University of Chicago).

-- “The Shock of the Old: The Ulm Einsatzkommando Trial and the Politics of Memory in Postwar Germany,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (January 6, 2001: Boston, MA).

-- “The Historiography of Horror: The Auschwitz Trial and the German Historical Imagination,” presented at the conference Lessons and Legacies VI: The Presence of the Holocaust (November 17-20, 2000: Northwestern University).

-- “‘Law, not Vengeance’: Human Rights, the Rule of Law and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials,” presented at the conference Between the Global and the Local: Making Human Rights Claims in the 21st Century (April 29-29, 2000: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee).

-- “The ‘Boger Syndrome’: Torture vs. Genocide in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963- 1965,” presented at the conference Investigating and Combating Torture: Explorations of a New Human Rights Paradigm (March 4-7, 1999: University of Chicago).

-- “Beyond Freud: The Use and Abuse of ‘Trauma’ in Studying the Holocaust,” presented at the Second Annual History and Theory Conference (November 14-15, 1998: University of California, Irvine).

-- “The Auschwitz Trial and the German Media,” presented at the conference From Trials to History: The Historian and the Judge Facing the Holocaust in France and Germany (January 25-27, 1998: Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany).

-- “Mediation, Time, and Totality: The Adorno/Benjamin Debate Reconsidered,” presented at the International Walter Benjamin Conference (July 24-27, 1997: Amsterdam, Netherlands).

-- “The Last of the Flâneur: Siegfried Kracauer and the Modern Condition,” presented at the Midwest Graduate Conference in German Studies (May 17-20, 1993: Chicago, IL).

Conferences and Panels Organized --Democracies in Peril, (Joint International Conference, Boston College, April 12-13 2019 and Meiji University, Tokyo, October 11-12, 2019)

--“Law and the Holocaust,” Seminar at the Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies, Orlando, May 6-7, 2013; June 12-13 2015; May 23-24, 2017; and May 31-June 1, 2018.

-- Summer Research Seminar on “Jews and the Law in Modern Europe: Emancipation, Destruction, Reconstruction” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, (International Workshop, Summer 2011), co-organized with Warren Rosenblum.

--Human Rights and Religion in Historical Perspective, (International Conference, April 2011, Boston College).

-- Beyond the Racial State (International Conference, co-sponsored by Indiana University and the German Historical Institute, October 2009), co-organized with Mark Roseman and Richard Wetzell.

-- “Perpetrators, Displaced Persons, and the Politics of Occupation,” panel for the German Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2006.

-- Rethinking Critical Social Theory in the 21st Century: Time, Labor and Social Domination After Ten Years (May 22, 2004: University of Chicago).

-- The (Un)Common Core: On Common Knowledge and the Future of the Disciplines (June 6, 2003: University of Chicago).

-- Dilemmas of Justice: New Perspectives on Trials for War Crimes and Mass Atrocity (an international conference, February 17, 2001: University of Chicago).

-- “Narrating Justice and Atrocity: War Crimes Trials and the Politics of Memory in the Postwar World,” panel for the AHA Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2001: Boston, MA).

University and Professional Service Professional 2017 Promotion Evaluation, Universität Wien 2013- Editorial Board, Law and Society Review 2012- Editorial Board, Critical Historical Studies 2012- Editorial Board, Law and History Review 2012-20 Series Editor, Genocide in Transnational Perspective, Bloomsbury Press

2014 Manuscript Referee, Princeton University Press 2014 Manuscript Referee, Genocide Studies and Prevention 2012 Manuscript Referee, University of Tennessee Press 2012 Manuscript Referee, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust 2012 Manuscript Referee, New German Critique 2012 Manuscript Referee, The Historical Journal 2012 Manuscript Reviewer, Continuum Press 2012 Manuscript Reviewer, Melbourne Journal of International Law 2011-12 German Studies Review article prize committee. 2011-12 Local Arrangements Sub-Committee, Conference Committee, Council of European Studies

17 2011 Manuscript Reviewer, Patterns of Prejudice 2010-12 Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Council of European Studies 2011 Promotion Evaluation, Hunter College, CUNY 2011 Manuscript Referee, Ashgate Publishers 2011 Manuscript Referee, Canadian Journal of History 2010 Manuscript Referee, University of Tennessee Press 2010 Tenure Evaluation, Williams College 2010, 2011 Manuscript Referee, International Journal of Transitional Justice 2010 Manuscript Referee, Central European History 2010, 2011 Manuscript Referee, Oxford University Press 2010 Manuscript Referee, Diplomatic History 2009 Promotion Evaluation, Carleton University, Canada 2009 Manuscript Referee, Enslow Publishers 2009 Manuscript Referee, Journal of Contemporary History 2009 Manuscript Referee, Palgrave 2008 Tenure Evaluation, Bryant University, Rhode Island 2008 Manuscript Referee, Pearson 2008 Grant Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014 Manuscript Referee, Law and History Review 2008 Manuscript Referee, Routledge 2007, 2010, 2014 Manuscript Referee, Cambridge University Press 2007 Manuscript Referee, Prentice-Hall 2007 Manuscript Referee, Journal of Genocide Research 2006, 2010, 2013 Manuscript Referee, Yale University Press 2004, 2008 Manuscript Referee, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2004, 2007 Outside Examiner, Comparative Social Studies Program, Wesleyan University 2003, 2011 Manuscript Referee, Journal of Modern History

Boston College, University Service 2020- Promotion and Tenure Committees 2014-15 University Technology Advisory Council 2013-16 Provost’s Advisory Council 2010-11 University Committee on Departmental Administration 2008-12 University Grievance Committee 2008-11 Graduate Educational Policy Committee 2006-11 University Research Council 2004- 07 Faculty Mentor, Teachers for a New Era, Lynch School of Education

Boston College, Departmental Service

18 2020 Promotion Committee for Sylvia Sellers-Garcia 2018-20 Director of Graduate Studies 2017-18 Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies 2017-18 Search Committee Chair, Global and International History Search 2015 Chair, Fourth Year Review Committee for Prof. Ling Zhang 2014 Search Committee Member, Soviet History Search 2014 Second Year Review Committee for Prof. Thomas Dodman 2013 Chair, Second Year Review Committee, Prof. Sylvia Sellers-Garcia 2012 Second Year Review Committee for Prof. Arissa Oh 2011 Search Committee Chair, Modern European History Search 2011 Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair for Prof. Julian Bourg 2010 Tenure and Promotion Committee Chair for Prof. Sarah Ross 2008 Search Committee Chair, Modern European Intellectual History Search 2008-12 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History 2006-07 History Department, Faculty Technology Coordinator 2005-06 Core Curriculum Committee 2005-06 Admissions Committee, Undergraduate Honors Program 2004-07 Graduate Affairs Committee 2004-12 Lectures Committee 2003-07 Faculty Sponsor, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

University of Chicago 2003 University of Chicago Representative, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Mellon Foundation Conference, “Engaging Today’s Students with the Liberal Arts” (March 2003). 2002-2003 Co-Chair, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts 2002-2003 Faculty Sponsor, Social Theory Workshop 2001-2002 Steering Committee, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts 2001, 2002 Search committee for Collegiate Assistant Professors of Social Sciences, 1999-2000 University Special Taskforce on Housing Policy 1998- 2003 Resident Head, Bishop House, Shoreland Hall 1998-1999 Organizer and Chair, History Department Dissertation Proposal Workshop 1995-1996 Student Representative, Graduate Student Affairs Committee 1995-1996 Student Coordinator, Social Theory Workshop

Theses and Dissertations Advised Ph.D. Dissertations --Felix Jimenez, “Embracing Human Rights: Grassroots Solidarity Activism and Foreign Policy in 1970s West Germany” (Defended March 2018).

--Shannon Monaghan, “Relighting the Lamps? Population Politics and the Development of Democracy in the New Europe, 1918-1926” (Defended April 2016).

--Natalia King, “Crossing the Wall: African-Americans in East Germany, 1945-1990,” (Defended October 2014).

--Anna Kolchinsky, “Tuberculosis as Disease and Politics in the Two Germanys, 1871- 1961” (Defended July 2013).

--Katherine Hubler, “Man’s Duty to Woman: Men and the First Wave of German Feminism, 1865-1919” (Defended September 2012).

--Nicholas Germana, “‘The Orient of Europe’: The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity, 1760-1830” (Defended June 2006).

M.A. Theses --Catherine Mawer, “The International Criminal Court: The US and the Court on Trial” (Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago, 2002).

--Micheline Mendelsohn, “When the UN Fails: Genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia” (Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago, 2002).

B.A. Theses --Armen Grigorian, “The Politics of Memory: The United States’ Response to the Armenian Genocide” (2016-17)

--Jonathan Januszewski, “Passions at Play in the Past and Present: An Intellectual History of Francois Furet” (2016-17).

--Alec Walker, “Thought without Place: Adorno, Horkheimer, Arendt, and Lemkin in Exile” (2015-16).

--Erin Downey, “Maman, I’m Going to be Afraid: The Holocaust Experiences of Jewish Children in France” (2014-15).

--Jake Lovitz, “The President, Public Opinion, and Human Rights in Modern America” (2014-15).

--Michael Fronte, “Those who Resisted: German Military Resistance to Hitler” (2014- 15).

--Lindsay Grossman, “Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Analysis of Diaries and Memoirs” (2013-14).

--Lauren Revere, “German Guilt and Responsibility: American and German Perspectives Concerning the Treatment of Post-World War II Germany” (2013-14).

--Harry Boswell, “Justice at Nuremberg?: The United States of America vs. Josef Alstotter, et al. and the German and American Publics’ Reaction to the Nuremberg Military Tribunals” (2013-14).

20 --Taylor Beaton, “Return from Russia: The Experience of German Prisoners of War” (2013-14).

--Alexandra Valdez, “Caught between Kreuz and Hakenkreuz: The Crisis of German Catholic Youth under the Nazi Regime” (Boston College, 2009-10).

--William Monigan, “From our own Correspondent: The Times of London, Geoffrey Dawson, and the Myths of the Appeasement Era” (Boston College, 2006-07).

--Laura Honsberger, “A Difference of Degrees: Ernst Jünger, the National Socialists and Europe” (Boston College, 2005-06)

--Jessica Gutteridge, “The United States and the International Criminal Court: ‘The Upshot of Ambivalence’” (Boston College, 2005-06).

--Jessica Grimes, “Cinema as Political Agenda of the Nazi Party: The Creation of Hitler’s ‘Volk,’ 1933-1945” (Boston College, 2004-05).

--John Reynolds, “The Transformation of German Nationalism: Nation, State, and Race in German High Culture” (Boston College, 2004-05).

-- Samia Kahn, “Genocide and Justice in Rwanda” (University of Chicago, 2002-03).

-- David Michaeli, “Terrorism and the Law” (University of Chicago, 2002-03).

Courses Taught Boston College 1) Modern History II: Democracy, Rights, and Empire (undergraduate lecture course) 2) German History, 1648-1871 (undergraduate colloquium) 3) German History, 1871-1989 (undergraduate colloquium) 4) The Third Reich (undergraduate colloquium) 5) War Crimes Trials in the 20th Century (undergraduate colloquium) 6) Human Rights as History (undergraduate colloquium) 7) War and Genocide (undergraduate colloquium) 8) Modern European History (graduate colloquium) 9) Europe, 1700-2000 (graduate seminar) 10) War and Society in 20th Century Europe (graduate colloquium) 11) War in the Western World (Freshman Advising Seminar) 12) Intro to Doctoral Studies (graduate colloquium) 13) Law and History (graduate colloquium) 14) International History (graduate colloquium) 15) Race and Racism in World History (graduate colloquium) 16) World War II in Global Perspective (undergraduate lecture course) 17) The Intellectual History of Capitalism (senior colloquium)

University of Chicago

21 1) Power, Identity and Resistance (yearlong, staff-taught core course in the social sciences) 2) Wealth, Power and Virtue (yearlong, staff-taught core course in the social sciences) 3) European War and Genocide (undergraduate seminar) 4) War Crimes Trials since 1945 (mixed graduate and undergraduate lecture course) 5) Nazi War, Genocide and War Crimes, with Michael Geyer (undergraduate seminar) 6) War and Revolution in 20th Century Europe (continuing education course)